Aristophanes, the film director Joseph Strick and the bawdy possibilities of Greek comedy suggest an irresistible combination for Ladies' Day, at the Granary Theatre, in Cork. Possibly assisted by the free provision of Greek wine beforehand, audiences seem more than willing to accept what they are offered in a short production conducted in rhyming couplets - and triplets. It is directed nonchalantly by Strick himself, who is also credited, along with Cary Hollinshed, as co-adapter of the ancient play.

His feeling for the work and its homage to that unhappy Attic genius, Euripedes, led him to write a somewhat meatier version than that usually performed; then he e-mailed a number of universities in the UK and Ireland in search of a safe environment in which to work on it - a place with a willing cast and a co-operative audience. He found these conditions in a reply to his e-mail by Ali Robertson, of the Granary, then in the cast - led with authority by Gary Murphy - and then in a Cork audience more than willing to supply naughty rhymes and rhythmic dancing when required. It has to be said, however, that all this gaiety and song-and-dance are not enough. The ordinary accomplishments of drama, in terms of entrances and exits, are missing. There can be little satisfaction in seeing this satire on female emancipation (one of his favourite themes) condensed as if Aristophanes had been merely a writer of scatalogically witty verses. He wrote plays; theatricality is the first tribute he demands.

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